I believe everyone has exactly the same rights, regardless of their gender, skin color, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, choice between emacs and vi, etc. But I don't consider myself a feminist. I don't really see why I need to adopt one specific label like that. Should I also identify as an Emacsinist or whatever?
Perhaps more to the point, in the case of feminism in particular, there seems to be a strong undercurrent of something more than a desire for equality. The phrase "man hating feminist" exists for a reason. For my money, the "rad fem" sect have largely co-opted the label "feminist" and I don't necessarily want to endorse their worldview.
Exactly. Concepts like the women's suffrage movement, and resistance to sharia law are in most people's minds extremely removed from the sort of boutique activism one finds in the United States campuses today. Going a layer further, the pendulum in the culture war has swung so far from "women should stay in their place" to "their is no such thing as a something special about womanhood" that people avoid the word feminism for all the connotations it invokes. Valuing motherhood for instance is the sort societal foundation no civilization making a claim to legitimacy can distort. Those paying attention will also note that removing chivalry as something valued in society is, as expected by definition, being replaced with increasing acceptance of violence.
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[ 2.9 ms ] story [ 12.8 ms ] threadPerhaps more to the point, in the case of feminism in particular, there seems to be a strong undercurrent of something more than a desire for equality. The phrase "man hating feminist" exists for a reason. For my money, the "rad fem" sect have largely co-opted the label "feminist" and I don't necessarily want to endorse their worldview.